The team had found different low standard commodities illegally kept in a hardware shop of Tirtha Lal Kutu, owner of Divyashwori Trading Home at Lokanthali. [break]
However, the team left the Kutu, himself a consumer rights activist, without taking action against him even after finding him selling alcohol.
The team also found date-expired ghee, spices and soft drinks from a shop nearby the hardware shop.
The shops were selling HP Gas and Om Gas without taking license from gas dealers. The team caught them while trying to hide the gas cylinders.
Likewise, the team also found substandard and date-expired commodities from Baba Store at Lokanthali. The team seized the substandard commodities from the shops. Different sweet shops and other shops were also monitored by the team where the team found the shops running without registration.
Consumers complained that the market monitoring headed by the Small and Cottage Industry is ineffective and is just for showing.
The team also carried out monitoring at the Singh Hardware acting on the complaints of consumers for compelling them to make cards by paying Rs. 100 in order to buy gas.
Chairman of Consumer Forum Bhaktapur, Purna Krishna Shrestha and Chairman of the National Consumers Federation, Bhaktapur, Manoj Thapa who were involved in monitoring team also admitted that though monitoring was carried out in nine shops only few of them were taken action.
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